BIOM 6635 - Bioanalytics

Prerequisite: biomedical engineering graduate standing or consent of the instructor. This course will introduce students to various physical, chemical, and biological instrumental methods of characterizing structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids, catalysis of biochemical reactions, glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, DNA sequencing, transcription, post-transcriptional processing, translation, photosynthesis, properties of membranes. The goal is to review selected analytical methods - instrumental, probabilistic, and modeling - as applied to biological systems, their design and evaluation. 3 credits.